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Introduction to Linux - A Hands on Guide

This guide was created as an overview of the Linux Operating System, geared toward new users as an exploration tour and getting started guide, with exercises at the end of each chapter.
For more advanced trainees it can be a desktop reference, and a collection of the base knowledge needed to proceed with system and network administration. This book contains many real life examples derived from the author's experience as a Linux system and network administrator, trainer and consultant. They hope these examples will help you to get a better understanding of the Linux system and that you feel encouraged to try out things on your own.

good.
love to collect old hardware. sadly i do not have any 386 machine now - i have my first pc motherboard - 286 12 mhz with 1 mb sipp.
also have 486dx66, and then - pentiumk 133, 166mmx, and 200mmx.
some time ago install win95osr2 on 200mmx - speed is fantastic.
much faster load and shutdown, than my core2duo 2.2 ghz with lot of ram, and nowadays linux.
sometimes i think, where we go?
cpu power and so on all times grow, but we do not need that fantastic power actually, most of time. ok, video / audio recoding, and so on is another deal, but simple OS, web browsing ( fcking webbrowser with 15 -30 open tabs on slack 14.1 eat about 30 - 50% of CPU! for what??? )...
good old days...
and i have my Gravis UltraSound PnP too! midi's, tracker music... demoscene....doom1, doom2, duke nukem 3d, warcraft 2,wing commander series, x-tension, elite...oh my god!

Distribution: Slackware 14 is Main OpSys on Main PC, 2ndary are OpenSuSe 13 and SolydK

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That's pretty cool. I've had to toss most of my retro gear just from lack of space. I did hold on to a Tandy 8088 that had DOS3 in ROM, a tiny daughterboard sound system, and the earliest IDE drive I've ever seen which was a huge clunker mounted on an ISA card (covered the next ISA slot), until just 2 years ago when I moved and it too, had to go.

The oldest unit I still have is also a laptop but it's a Sony P2-430 w/ a Seagate 7200 rpm 60G hdd, 256MB ram, multi-booting FreeDOS, OS/2 Warp4, and Slackware 12.2. It's actually still quite useful. By a considerable margin OS/2 is the fastest on it, but Slackware (naturally) the most "updateable" for browsers and such.